Game device.



S. SCHUYLER.

GAME DEVICE.

. APPLICATION FILED FEB. a, ma 1,288,695, Patented Dec. 24, 1918;

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SAMPSON SCHUYLER, OF LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY.

GAME DEVICE.

Application filed February 8, 1918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known. that I, SAMPSON SOHUYLER, acitizen of the United States, and residing at Long Branch, in the countyof Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Game Devices. of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to what are known as game or puzzle devices, andthe object thereof is to provide an improved device of this classdesigned particularly for use as a game device but which also may beused as a puzzle device; a further object being to provide a device ofthe class specified which is designed to amuse and entertain both oldand young; and with these and other objects in view the inventionconsists in a device of the class specified, constructed as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a device ofthe class specified involving my invention;

Fig. 2 a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 3 a partial longitudinal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In" the practice of my invention I provide an oblong and approximatelyrectangular box or case a, comprising a bottom a a back wall a and endwalls a and the end walls a are preferably beveled or inclineddownwardly as shown at a and within the box or case is placed ahorizontal top plate 7) below which is a space or chamber 0 divided bytransverse partitions (i into separate compartments e, e and 6 havingdownwardly and forwardly inclined back walls 6 and upwardly andforwardly inclined front walls 6 which are of much less verticaldimensions than the back walls 6*, and with this construction thecompartments 6, e and 6 open forwardly and upwardly as clearly shown inFig. 2.

The top plate I; is countersunk in the top part of the box or case andthis forms, above said top plate, a longitudinal space or chamber fwhich, in the construction shown, opens Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

Serial No. 215,990.

forwardly and upwardly and said plate is provided at spaced intervalswith apertures g, the walls of which are conical in form or taperedinwardly and downwardly, and one of these apertures g is provided foreach of the compartments 6, e and 6 I also provide a hollow ball orspherical body It, the opposite sides of which are provided withapertures 72 which correspond with the apertures g in the plate Z), andthe opposite sides of the ball or body it in which the apertures [L2 areformed, are of such dimensions that said sides of the ball or body 72.will fit in the tops of the apertures g as clearly shown in Fig. 3; andthe dimensions of the ball or body 71. are such that the circumferentialdistance between the centers of the apertures 72. formed therein isapproximately the same as the distance between the centers of any two ofthe apertures g in the plate I).

I also provide and place in the ball or body it a plurality of balls 2'which are preferably three in number, and the diameters of which areapproximately the same as the diameters of the apertures 72, in the ballor body It, and also the same as the diameters of the apertures g in theplate 6, but said balls, individually, are free to pass through theapertures 72, and also the apertures g.

In the construction shown the apertures g in the plate 6 are numbered 1,2 and 3, beginning at the right, and two, three or more may be engagedin playing the game, and a player will take the ball or body it andplace the balls 2' therein, and then place the ball or body it in theposition shown at the right in Fig. 1, and then roll said ball or bodyit to the left in such manner that at each revolution of said ball orbody one of the apertures 7L therein will come in connection with andregister with one of the apertures g in the plate I), as shown in Fig.

3, and in this operation one or more of the balls 71 may drop throughthe apertures 7L and 9 into the compartment or compartments ee -e andthe player who succeeds in getting the most of the balls 2' deposited insaid compartments wins the game. Each player may have three efforts ormake three attempts in manipulating the ball or body h, as abovedescribed, and it will be understood that all of the balls 2' may dropout of the body h at one movement of said body and into one of thecompartments ee e in which event, the player takes the balls out of saidcompartments and replaces them in the body h and proceeds as beforeuntil he has reached the aperture 3 in the plate 6 but in a largemajority of cases not more than one ball 2' will pass out of the body itinto one of the compartments ee c at any one movement of said body h.

01- course, any desired number of players may engage in a game and anydesired set of rules may be provided for the playing thereof, and theballs '5 may be numbered in the manner of other game devices of thisclass and said numbers used in counting the game, and my invention isnot limited to.

the exact details of form and construction of the box or case a hereinshown and described,rand the front of said box or case and the topthereof may be inclosed by detachable parts, ii desired, and changes inand modifications of the construction herein described may be made,within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from thespirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is ,1. A device of the class described,comprising an oblong box or case having a top plate provided with spacedapertures, and a hollow spherical body the opposite sides of which areprovided with corresponding apertures, the circumferential distancebetween thecenters of which is approximately the same as the distancebetween the centers of the apertures in said plate, and a plurality ofballs adapted to be passed into said body through the apertures therein.

2. A device of the class described, comprising an oblong box or casehaving a top plate provided with spaced apertures, and a hollowspherical body the opposite sides of which are provided withcorresponding apertures, the circumferential distance between thecenters of which is approximately the same as the distance between thecenters of the apertures in said plate, and a plurality of balls adaptedto be passed into said body through the apertures therein, saidapertures in said body and the apertures in said plate being oit'approximately the some dimensions.

3. In a game device of the class described, a hollow spherical body thewalls of which are provided at opposite points with apertures of thesame dimensions and three ball members the diameters of which aresimilar and also approximately similar to the diameters of saidapertures, said ball members being adapted to be passed successivelyinto said spherical body through the apertures therein and to be passedsuccessively out of said body through said apertures by the manipulationof said body, substantially as shown and described.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I my invention I havesigned my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this Copies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissioner of Patents. Washington, I). 0.

